Feather washer and drier



FEATHER WASHER AND DRIER Filed Sept. 4, 1930 Emil...-

Patented Nov. 24, 1931 PATENT OFFICE ANNA M. BUDDE, OF MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA FEATHER WASHER AND DRIER Application filed September 4, 1930. Serial No. 479,764.

This invention relates to improvements in feather washers and driers and the primary object thereof is to provide a device in which the feathers can be easily and quickly washed and then dried by hanging the device on a clothes line or the like so that the device may revolve due to the action of air currents, thereby to facilitate drying of the feathers.

Inthe drawings:

Fig. 1 is a vertical section view of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan View;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1 parts of the foraminous plunger being omit- 1 ted; and

Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing the device suspended on a clothes line or the like.

In proceeding in accordance with the pres ent invention a foraminous cylinder 1 is provided which may be made of screen wire or other suitable material and has at its upper end a head 2. A screen 3 is secured to a spider 4 and to a ring 5 which latter is connected to the spider for example by soldering or welding or otherwise, and is removable from the cylinder. Axially extending rods 7 which latter act to brace and hold the screen wire 1 against collapsing are provided. An L- shaped ring 6 engages over the wire 1 and over the rods 7 and is suitably fixed to each. The opposite end of the cylinder is closed by a corresponding head 8 having a spider 9 and otherwise is of the same construction as the head 2 so that the description of one suflices for the other with the exception that the ring 9 of the spider 9is fixedly attached to the head 8. A plunger rod 10 extends through the spiders 4 and 14 and has an operating handle 11. A foraminous plunger 12 which may also be made of screen wire is secured to the rod 10 by means of nuts 13 and is composed of a spider 14 and a substantially U-shaped fabric member 15 which latter is stitched about the spider 14 as shown at 16.

The spider 9 has the head 17 of a stud 18 suitably aflixed thereto in any desired manner and is provided with a washer 19 held in position by a cotter pin 20 applied to the reduced end 21 of the stud 18. The wire 3 is soldered to the ring 5. Consequently the ring '5 and the screen 3, together with the plunger 12 and rod 10, can be removed to enable the feathers to be placed in the cylinder, following which the ring is reapplied to the position of Fig. 1 and the device is thensubmerged in soapy or other water. The plunger is reciprocated until the feathers are thoroughly cleansed, whereupon the cylinder is removed from the water and the latter ex pressed out of the cylinder. suspending members 22 having hooked ends are then ap plied to the end of the plunger rod 10 adjacent its handle and to the stud 18, the hooks being engaged with a clothes line or other horizontal support L, whereupon it will be seen that the device will be suspended in a horizontal position in the air, and can be readily rotated by hand or by any air currents, as is obvious. The handle 11 acts to prevent the adjacent suspending member from being moved out of engagement with the rod.

WVhat is claimed is:

1. In a feather washer and drier, a foraminous cylinder, foraminous heads at the ends of the cylinder, a foraminous plunger in the cylinder, a rod for operating the plunger connected thereto and extending through one of the heads, a stud secured to and projecting outwardly from the other head, and a pair of rods having hooked ends engaging the rod and stud and engageable with a clothes line to suspend the cylinder for rotation in the air.

2. In a feather washer and drier, a foraminous cylinder, foraminous heads at the ends -of the cylinder, a foraminous plunger in the cylinder, a rod for operating the plunger con nected thereto and extending through one of the heads, a journal on the other head and suspending means for the cylinder engaging the rod and journal and engageable with a clothes line to rotatably hold the cylinder in the air.

3. In a feather washer and drier, a foraminous cylinder, foraminous heads at the ends of the cylinder, a foraminous plunger in the cylinder, a rod for operating the plunger connected. thereto and extending through one of the heads, and suspending means for the cylinder engageable with a clothes line to rotatably hold the cylinder in the air.

4.111 a Washer and drier, a foraminous cylinder, 21 plunger in the cylinder, a rod for operating the plunger connected thereto and r i Q i -beyQnd, n nd .of. e y er,

journal onithe opposite end'of the cylinder, and suspending means for the cylinder haying parts to detachably engage a cl oths line l0 and detachably engagingthe 161mm and 'stid projectingpart of the rod to support the cylinder in horizontal position;-

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In testimony whereof I ziflix niy signature. V ANNA M. BUDDE. 

